Signatures Image from Kurtis Garbutt. Putting data out in the environment allows everyone to access it. The problem is that it allows any one to alter and recreate that data in their own vision. Sometimes that is great, other times it is disastrous. I love the idea of someone using public data to make something, but I …

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Go paperless! You have probably had every business you interact with ask you to go paperless. The reasons are sound. Reduce waste from the printing and mailing. It can also declutter the house as you don’t have to file a small stack of paper each month. The problem is that it isn’t going paperless so much …

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I really don’t like the feeds on social media. I joined Twitter purely for this blog and it is rare that anything there is more than noise to me. That’s why I did not install the app on my phone and I only check it with relation to this blog (which is not really worth it either). Last night I checked for …

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Big News and space trash Big news last week was also that NASA had upgraded it’s Deep Space Network and sent commands 11+ billion miles to Voyager 2. Of the events in the last week Voyager 2 will probably hold more space in history books in the long run. It was one of our first grand tours of the Solar System and …

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Note: The cover image is from Wikipedia and produced by Arne Nordmann An image is worth a thousand words and can take a million to send We all love images. They convey a lot of information very quickly and are often easier to digest than the written word. Our brains will accept them as fact, even when they …

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In the previous version of this blog I focused specifically on the concepts of anticryptography. I had written a post about the universality around numbers. While I was thinking of reposting the original it became obvious that the subject was important to me and needed to be rewritten. How to talk to aliens While …

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